"Engraved reproductions were widely hung in nurseries, schools and church buildings. The Light of the World (painting) The Light of the World (1851–53) is an allegorical painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) representing the figure of Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door, illustrating Revelation 3:20: ""Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me"". According to Hunt: ""I painted the picture with what I thought, unworthy though I"
"The Light of the World (Boucher) The Light of the World is a 1750 oil on canvas painting by François Boucher, now in the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon. It was Madame de Pompadour's first commission from the artist and his first large-format religious work - he only produced a total of five of the latter. It was initially called ""The Adoration of the Shepherds"". It was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1750 and won him the commission to paint a room at the Louvre as well as the post of first painter to the king. The painting was"
"placed on the altar in the closet of one of the ante-chambers of the Château de Bellevue. Étienne Fessard made an engraving of the painting in 1761, giving it its present title. It left the Château between 1762 and 1764, passing through several collections before being assigned to the Louvre by the Office des biens et Intérêts privé in 1951. It was assigned by them to the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon in 1955, The Light of the World (Boucher) The Light of the World is a 1750 oil on canvas painting by François Boucher, now in the Musée des"
"adorn the walls of the Keble Cricket Pavilion inside the ground. Keble owns the original of William Holman Hunt's famous painting ""The Light of the World"", which is hung in the side chapel (accessed through the chapel). The picture was completed in 1853 after eight years of work, and originally hung in the Royal Academy. It was then given as a gift to the college. Hunt originally wanted the painting to be hung in the main chapel but the architect rejected this idea, as a result he painted another version of the painting which is in St Paul's Cathedral, London."
"The Empire of Light The Empire of Light () is a series of three oil on canvas paintings by René Magritte painted between 1949 and 1954. They depict the paradoxical image of a nighttime street, lit only by a single street light, beneath a daytime sky. In this case the artist was inspired by the works of John Atkinson Grimshaw, an English painter from the Victorian era, who had delighted in his time to paint urban views at sunset. The paintings inspired a scene in the 1973 horror film ""The Exorcist"", which was used on the film's posters and home"
"having decided success."" After the war, Chambers was later able to make contact with the soldier, who told him that having survived the war, he had entered a monastery. The refurbished crucifix, now termed ""The Return Crucifix"", is still at Holy Innocents. There is also a stained glass rendition of Chamber's painting in the choir loft.. Charles Bosseron Chambers Charles Bosseron Chambers (C. Bosseron Chambers) (1882 - 1964) was a painter, illustrator and teacher. Known as the ""Norman Rockwell of Catholic art"", his religious paintings have become highly collectible. He is best known for the ""Light of the World"", the"
"Charles Bosseron Chambers Charles Bosseron Chambers (C. Bosseron Chambers) (1882 - 1964) was a painter, illustrator and teacher. Known as the ""Norman Rockwell of Catholic art"", his religious paintings have become highly collectible. He is best known for the ""Light of the World"", the most popular religious print in America during the first half of the 20th Century. Charles Bosseron Chambers was born in St. Louis, Missouri on May 1882. His father, an Irish captain in the British Army, was a convert to Catholicism; his mother was from a St. Louis family of French descent. He was brought up in"
"of four year old model Gilbert DeMille, son of the custodian at St. Ignatius School, became the ""Light of the World"". Between 1920 and 1940, millions of copies were sold. The print can be seen over the priest's desk in the 1948 film ""The Miracle of the Bells"". Chambers also painted the fourteen Stations of the Cross in the Church. According to a popular account, one day, Chambers stopped by the Church of the Holy Innocents on 37th St. for Mass. Afterwards he observed a young man praying before a life-size crucifix and immediately made a quick sketch. In later"
"population viewed it. Due to Hunt's increasing infirmity and glaucoma, he was assisted in the completion of this version by English painter Edward Robert Hughes (who also assisted with Hunt's version of ""The Lady of Shalott""). Hunt was buried in St Paul's. A third, smaller version of the painting, painted by Hunt in pastels between 1851 and 1856, is on display at Manchester City Art Gallery, England, which purchased it in 1964. The painting gave rise to much popular devotion in the late Victorian period and inspired several musical works, including Arthur Sullivan's 1873 oratorio ""The Light of the World""."
"of this score revealed ... many fine choruses, brilliant solos, and beautiful pastoral passages. While not of a consistency or individuality of ""The Martyr of Antioch"" or ""The Golden Legend"", ""The Light of the World"" has more than enough virtues to justify a professional revival."" The Light of the World (Sullivan) The Light of the World is an oratorio composed in 1873 by Arthur Sullivan. Sullivan wrote the libretto with the assistance of George Grove, based on the New Testament. The story of the oratorio narrates the whole life of Christ, focusing on his deeds on Earth as preacher, healer"
"Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis is an oil painting by the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (c.1775–1851), first exhibited in 1843. Displayed during the latter years of J.M.W. Turners career, this painting depicts a deluge scene where the natural effects of light and weather (the atmosphere) play a crucial role on Turner's concept of vision. The deluge being referred to in the title is the representation of the"
"The Ray of Light The Ray of Light, also known as Le Coup de Soleil, (c. 1665) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Louvre Museum. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; ""664. THE BURST OF SUNSHINE ("" Le Coup de Soleil ""). Sm. 11. A road leads diagonally across the picture from the left foreground to the right distance. On the left a horseman in a red cloak rides forward"
"the modern painting is not the look of pain and horror that viewers saw when the painting was first exhibited, and which shocked and repulsed many of the contemporary critics. The painting was commissioned by Thomas Fairbairn, a Manchester industrialist and patron of the Pre-Raphaelites, after Egg discussed Hunt's ideas and possibly showed him some of the initial sketches. Fairbairn paid Hunt 350 guineas. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854, along with ""The Light of the World"". Fairbairn found himself unable to bear looking on the woman's expression day-to-day, so persuaded Hunt to soften it. Hunt"
"The Great Day of His Wrath The End of the World, commonly known as The Great Day of His Wrath, is an 1851–1853 oil painting on canvas by the English painter John Martin. Leopold Martin, John Martin's son, said that his father found the inspiration for this painting on a night journey through the Black Country. This has led some scholars to hold that the rapid industrialisation of England in the early nineteenth century influenced Martin. Some authors have used the painting as the front cover for their books; examples include ""Mass of the Apocalypse"" and ""Studies in the Book"
"""Shade and Darkness"" was also taken. In 2002, the Tate Gallery covertly purchased ""Light and Colour"" on the black market for $2 million. Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis is an oil painting by the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (c.1775–1851), first exhibited in 1843. Displayed during the latter years of J.M.W. Turners career, this painting depicts a deluge scene where the natural effects of light and weather (the"
"video releases, in which the character Father Merrin stands in front of the MacNeil family's house. It also inspired the artwork for the cover of Jackson Browne's 1974 album ""Late for the Sky"". The Empire of Light The Empire of Light () is a series of three oil on canvas paintings by René Magritte painted between 1949 and 1954. They depict the paradoxical image of a nighttime street, lit only by a single street light, beneath a daytime sky. In this case the artist was inspired by the works of John Atkinson Grimshaw, an English painter from the Victorian era,"
"The World (Descartes) The World, also called Treatise on the Light (French title: ""Traité du monde et de la lumière""), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy, from method, to metaphysics, to physics and biology. Descartes espoused mechanical philosophy, a form of natural philosophy popular in the 17th century. He thought everything physical in the universe to be made of tiny ""corpuscles"" of matter. Corpuscularianism is closely related to atomism. The main difference was that Descartes maintained that there could be no vacuum, and all matter"
"Great Park surrounding the Nonsuch Palace of Henry VIII, and was used extensively for hunting. It has been claimed that the first version of the painting ""The Light of the World"" (1851–3) by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) was painted at night in a makeshift hut at the house, the other claimant being the garden of the Oxford University Press Worcester Park House burned down in a great fire in 1948. The remaining walls and chimneys were gradually demolished by the youth of the area during the following ten years. The lake also silted up during this"
"Michael Ainger suggests that the idea for the libretto of ""The Light of the World"" came to Sullivan when he viewed a chapel near Norwich, England, in September 1872. Composing the oratorio occupied Sullivan during much of 1873. Sullivan's introduction to the work says that, unlike Handel's ""Messiah"", which focuses on Christ's ""spiritual idea"", or J. S. Bach's Passion music, which focuses on Christ's suffering, the purpose of ""The Light of the World"" is to ""set forth the human aspect of the life of our Lord on earth, exemplifying it by some of the actual incidents in his career, which"
"From Darkness, the Light (Johann Ender) From Darkness, the Light () or Allegory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences () is a monumental painting by Johann Ender in the Art Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. It is also the official symbol of the institution, the main motif constituting its logo. The painting was made by Johann Ender in 1831 and it was signed by the artist on the lower right corner: Johann Ender pinx 1831. The allegorical painting was commissioned by the founder of the academy, Count István Széchenyi who donated the full annual income of"
"El Rio de Luz El Rio de Luz (Spanish for The River of Light; also known as Morning in the Tropics) is an 1877 oil painting by American landscape artist Frederic Edwin Church. It is his last large-scale painting of South America, following pieces such as ""The Andes of Ecuador"" (1855) and ""The Heart of the Andes"" (1859). Like them, the painting is a composite of the many sketches and drawings Church made while traveling in South America twenty years earlier. The work differs in important ways from Church's earlier, monumental South American canvases. While a high degree of realism"
"and immense light rays, and even bigger light chasms that literally swallow and dematerialize everything by colouring it into white dazzling lights, are the founding idea for the project that also opens up for the terminating idea of the Heaven Lights. Much earlier than impressionists, and later abstract expressionists, William Turner was the first painter of romantic and symbolic heritage, who was mainly preoccupied with the idea of light. In his paintings: , 1812, Shade and Darkness – the Evening of the Deluge, 1843, Light and Colour – the Morning after the Deluge, 1843, he tried to introspect and consume"
"transferred and felt at the other end, so is the impulse of light that is sent across the heavens and through the atmosphere from luminous bodies to our eyes. Descartes attributed light to have 12 distinct properties: Also: The World (Descartes) The World, also called Treatise on the Light (French title: ""Traité du monde et de la lumière""), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy, from method, to metaphysics, to physics and biology. Descartes espoused mechanical philosophy, a form of natural philosophy popular in the 17th"
"of several tenebrist paintings by La Tour. Others include ""The Education of the Virgin"", the ""Penitent Magdalene"", and ""The Dream of St. Joseph"". In all these works, a single, strong light source is a central element, surrounded by cast shadows. In both ""Joseph the Carpenter"" and ""The Education of the Virgin"", the young Christ is represented, hand raised, as if in benediction, with the candlelight shining through the flesh as an allegorical reference to Christ as the ""Light of the World."" Joseph the Carpenter Joseph the Carpenter is an oil painting by Georges de La Tour created circa 1645. The"
"Light of the World Light of the World ( ""Phṓs tou kósmou"") is a phrase Jesus used to describe himself and his disciples in the New Testament. The phrase is recorded in the Gospel of John and again in the Gospel of Matthew. It is closely related to the parables of Salt and Light and Lamp under a bushel. In Jesus applies the title to himself while debating with the Jews and states: Jesus again claims to be Light of the World in , during the miracle of healing the blind at birth, saying: This episode leads into where Jesus"
"Salvator Mundi (Leonardo) Salvator Mundi is a painting of Christ as Salvator Mundi (Latin for ""Savior of the World"") by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to . The painting shows Jesus, in Renaissance dress, giving a benediction with his right hand raised and two fingers extended, while holding a transparent rock crystal orb in his left hand, signaling his role as savior of the world and master of the cosmos, and representing the 'crystalline sphere' of the heavens, as it was perceived during the Renaissance. Around 20 other versions of the work are known, by students and followers of"
"famous images of the Revelation, and is the subject of the famous painting ""The Light of the World"" by Holman Hunt. It bears similarities to a saying of Jesus in Mark 13:33–37, and Luke 12:35–38. The door in the painting has no handle, and can therefore be opened only from the inside. Commentators variously view it as a metaphor of intimate fellowship, and/or a reference to the eschatological parousia of Christ. The theme of divine invitations to eat are found both in the New Testament (e.g., the Parable of the Wedding Feast) and in Graeco-Roman religion. Various papyri, such as"
"Light of the World, a copy of the celebrated painting by William Holman Hunt; and in the south light, Christ is represented as the Good Shepherd. There is also a two-light window, portraying the carrying of the cross and the crucifixion, inserted by the parishioners and friends to the memory of Thomas Thwaites, first rector of Hayton, who died 22 November 1884. The lectern in the form of an eagle was the gift of a Mrs Todd of Hayton. The wooden pulpit on the north side of the chancel was hand carved, and the reading desk on the south side."
"a steady source of income. Charles Bosseron Chambers died in New York in 1964. Chambers worked in oil painting, water colors, and charcoal drawings. Known as the ""Norman Rockwell of Catholic art"", his religious paintings have become highly collectible, his most famous being Jesus portrayed as a young boy in ""Light of the World."" In 1919 Chambers was commissioned to do paintings for the side altars in the newly built St. Ignatius Church in Rogers Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. There, Chambers produced a painting of St. Joseph holding the infant Christ. A detail of that painting, the face"
"in 1854 (after Martin's death) by Thomas McLean. together with two other paintings by Martin, ""Plains of Heaven"" and ""The last Judgment"" (a group of three 'judgment pictures'). Despite wide public reception, the three paintings were rejected as vulgar by the Royal Academy. In 1945, the painting was purchased by the Tate from Robert Frank. The Great Day of His Wrath The End of the World, commonly known as The Great Day of His Wrath, is an 1851–1853 oil painting on canvas by the English painter John Martin. Leopold Martin, John Martin's son, said that his father found the inspiration"
"the sky in Balla's ""Street Light"" is submerged into the background by his celebrated artificial light. Street Light (painting) Street Light (sometimes called The Street Light: Study of Light) (Italian: ) is a painting by Italian Futurist painter Giacomo Balla, dated 1909, depicting an electric street lamp casting a glow which outshines the crescent moon. The painting was inspired by streetlights at the Piazza Termini in Rome. Lamp posts were a subject of Balla's work as early as 1900–1901. The iconography of a stylized street lamp appeared in a commercial poster in 1910, though it is not known if this"
"artists like Picasso and Francis Picabia. The round surface beneath Christ’s feet represents the earth and the halo on his head represents divinity. Christ’s right hand symbolizes blessing, and in his left hand he holds a book with the words EGO SUM LUX MUNDI, which translates in English to “I am the light of the world”. The symbols of Alpha and Omega hanging like lamps on either side of Christ, symbolize the beginning and end. The fourfold images represent four evangelists. To the right, an angel is seen beside the lion holding one of its hind legs, which is a"
"The Beacon Light The Beacon Light is a painting by J. M. W. Turner. It was given to the National Museum of Wales by the Davies sisters (Gwendoline and Margaret). For some time it was regarded as a fake, but is now accepted as authentic. ""Beacon Light"" was among a number of works that were said to have been given by Turner to his mistress, Mrs Booth. It was sold at Christie's by her son, John Pound (her son by her first marriage). In 1922, it was sold as a genuine Turner and the Davies sisters (Gwendoline and Margaret) spent"